Some bloggers have written over the weekend on the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. These are those with which I am familiar. If you have found a post particularly helpful as concerns trying to process what happened please share it in the comments section.
Carmen Andes: Tentative thoughts on Sandy Hook
Tony Cruz: Pray for Them by Name
Peter Enns: On God, Shooting Children, and Having No Answers
Rachel Held Evans: Grieving Together
Craig Falvo: School Prayer and School Shootings are Not Related
Katie Grimes: On the Killing of Children
Alan Jacobs: Two Thoughts about Guns, Risks, and Safety
T.C. Moore: Darkness, Advent, and Newtown, CT
Ben Myers: Prayer for Newton, Connecticut, December 14th
Cynthia Nielsen: Our Rachels are Weeping, Our School Children and Teachers are Slain, and “They” Say It’s Not Time to Talk about Guns
Nick Norelli: Senseless
Mark Stevens: A sermon in the wake of such unmentionable evil
Matthew Paul Turner: 4 Questions Every Evangelical Church Should Be Asking (in light of the Newtown shooting)
Kurt Willems: The God who cries when children die
Joel Watts: Tell me again about how that old time religion prevented school shootings
Ben Witherington: President Obama’s Homily in Newtown- 2 Cor 4.7-18 ; The Slaughter of the Innocents, Again